Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late summer baseball schedule consisting of two outside games and two out of three series between two informal teams was announced yesterday by Coach Adolph W. Samborski '26, Samborski, said that he would pick the team for the outside contest from the standout players in the pickup clashes...
First outside game Samborski said will be with the Middlesex Club of Water-town Wednesday at 3:30 o'clock at Soldiers Field. A yet unnamed team from the First Naval District will furnish the opposition for the second extra-mural contest on the following Wednesday...
Divorced. By the Countess of Carnarvon, 45, the former Tilly Losch, onetime Viennese premiere ballerina who changed her style, rose to fame in the '30s as an interpretative dancer: the Earl of Carnarvon, 58, on charges of adultery which he declined to contest (two years ago he failed to get a divorce on the grounds that Tilly had sailed off to the U.S. in 1940, leaving him and the blitz behind); after eight years of marriage, no children; in England...
Four different types of races have been scheduled, Brooks said, to appeal to men who feel that they have a specialty. There will be 50-yard races in free style, back-stroke, and breast-stroke, and a 200-yard contest free style for long distance swimmers...
Like many a housewife who had sweated over a fancy recipe for the contest, the Edmonton Journal was put out: "Just why steak should be a typical Alberta food is not explained. . . . Grilled prairie chicken or buffalo stew . . . would have lent itself to seductive advertising." But Dan Campbell, the Social Crediters' pressagent, liked it fine. He got ready to beguile tourists with the slogan: "Alberta is the only place in the world where you can get a thousand-dollar steak for one dollar...